I want everyone to fully understand how fantastic classical music is. It gets a bad rep, undeservedly. I would rather be able to let you listen to all these pieces, but some of them aren’t available on youtube. However, if you’re looking to increase the awesomeness of your music library, here are some ways to do just that:

This whole album is awesome – Midori and Robert McDonald Encore! (amazon link)

This whole album is also awesome – Rostropovich’s Bach Cello Suites…doesn’t get much better than that, quite honestly (amazon link)

Barber’s Adagio for Strings, but only if you can find the string quartet version (the orchestral version is too muddled and heavy). The Emerson String Quartet performed it for NPR, which is where I heard it (so. gorgeous.) but I can’t find a recording of it.